Deadwood’s Hebrew Hill (Mt. Zion) Cemetery Historical Marker

Deadwood is recognized as the site of the first organized Jewish Community in South Dakota.

On August 28, 1892, the Hebrew Cemetery Associationbecame the first organization to purchase a section of land in Mount Moriah Cemetery.

The section is located higher up on Jerusalem Ave., to the right.

Hebrew Hill, or Mt. Zion, as it was known in the Jewish Community, holds the graves of some of Deadwood’smany respected Pioneering Jewish citizens: among those are members of the Franklin, Colman, Schwarzwald, Wertheimer,Blumenthal, and Jacobs families.

Together with their non-Jewish brethren, they contributed significantly to the civic, commercial, and the social life of early Deadwood, helping to stabilize and develop the community.

This Historical marker was created by the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission and the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation. http://jewish-american-society-for-historic-preservation.org/